"I've asked [Jobs why he didn't get an operation then] and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened...I didn't want to be violated in that way,'" Isaacson recalls. So he waited nine months, while his wife and others urged him to do it, before getting the operation, reveals Isaacson.

Asked by Kroft how such an intelligent man could make such a seemingly stupid decision, Isaacson replies, "I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking...we talked about this a lot," he tells Kroft. "He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it....I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner."

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As a liberal techno rapture piece of shit, I believe Jobs is a GOD. No decision he would make could possibly have been wrong as a GOD so I dismiss this article. I also think Government creates sustainable job irrespective of the private sector. I am a mentally ill. I am a liberal.